How to Secure the Red Sea
Supporting and training the Yemeni Coast Guard is a low-cost way to undermine Houthi threats to the Red Sea.
Middle East Forum
Hamas and Turkey: Partners in Terror
Memos
Iran Is Using Foreign Islamic Centers to Spread Terror and Hatred; the World Must Close Them
Last month, Germany announced that it would deport Mohammed Mofatteh, the former director of Hamburg’s Shi’a Islamic Center, which local authorities had ordered shut down five weeks earlier for propagating extremism, and for its financial links to Hezbollah. ...
Op-eds
Terrorists Benefit from Qatar’s Goodwill and Charity
On Monday, President Joe Biden will have a busy meeting at the White House with Qatari ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad. Qatar hosts one of the biggest U.S military bases in the Gulf region and has been instrumental...
Insights
US investigates Qatar over claims that it finances Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps
The State Department has opened an inquiry into an Israeli government report that Qatar’s monarchy funded Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. “We...
Op-eds
Turkey’s Ziraat Bank Under Scrutiny
Irregularities Point to Erdoğan’s Manipulation of Financial System to Consolidate Power
Memos
America Should Not Sell F-35 Fighter Planes to the Qatari Regime
Israeli energy minister Yuval Steinitz, speaking to the Ynet website on Sunday, expressed concern that despite Jerusalem’s objections, Qatar will eventually acquire state-of-the-art Lockheed Martin...
Op-eds
Qatar’s alleged finance of Hezbollah terrorist movement puts US troops at risk, dossier claims
There are nearly 10,000 U.S. troops stationed in the Middle Eastern country
Op-eds
Follow the Money: The Israel-Boycott Movement and Its Accomplices
Co-authored by Asaf Romirowsky. U.S. banking giant Comerica’s closure of an account earlier this year held by an organization that wages legal and economic warfare against...
Op-eds
How US states can promote Israeli-Palestinian peace
Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky The growing number of laws and resolutions approved by US states, designed to block anti-Israel boycotts, divestment and sanctions efforts have sen...
Op-eds
Obama and the daylight between US and Israel
This week’s AIPAC conference will place the fractured Israel-US relationship front and center in the American public’s focus. Of all the promises that the Obama White House h...
Op-eds
Al-Jazeera Files $150M Claim Against Egypt for Harassment of Journalists
The Al-Jazeera news network has filed a $150M arbitration claim against the government of Egypt, making good on a three-year-old threat to seek redress for what it describes as the persecution of...
Op-eds
FDD Welcomes Oren Kessler as New Deputy Director of Research
Washington, D.C. - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies welcomed Oren Kessler this week as its newest Deputy Di...
Press Releases
Not Quiet on the Northern Front
Co-authored by Jonathan Spyer The disintegration of the Syrian state into warring enclaves is bringing with it new challenges and threats for Israel. Alarm bells have now been s...
Op-eds
Why Is the Obama Administration Courting Hezbollah?
Co-authored by Jonathan Spyer Evidence has recently emerged suggesting that the U.S. has opened a line of direct communication with the Lebanese Shia Islamist organiza...
Op-eds
Envoys Work to End UN’s Palestinian Refugee Status
At a small conference at the Harvard Club in Manhattan on Thursday, a host of dignitaries and experts, including Israel’s envoy to the UN Ron Prosor, addressed the UN’s classification...
Op-eds
Analysis: What Do Mideast Christians Face in ’13?
Growing persecution of Middle Eastern Christians and holy sites by radical Islamists in the Middle East and Africa in 2012 resulted in large numbers of murders, bombings, imprisonments, church cl...
Op-eds
Whose Middle East Policy Is It, Anyway?
The State Department contradicts Obama and previous presidents on the “right of return.”
Op-eds
“Destroy All the Churches”
Is it not news when Saudi Arabia’s leading religious authority meets with a terrorist group and says that?
Op-eds
Building Palestinian Prosperity
By Alexander Joffe And Asaf Romirowsky The Palestinian cause has never been more marginalized than it is today. That was the message conveyed by Palestinian Prime Minister...